Saturday, January 17, 2015

Sometimes the picture doesn't match reality! Run for the hills....or.. perhaps ...The Beach!
Follow the link and we find the eminent climate scientist responsible for the alarming statement, none other than Greens Leader Christine Milne. We await the Nobel prize announcement. In the meantime the temperature plateau that marks the first decade of the new millennia continues causing further problems for the models on which Ms Milne's alarmism is based on. But you won't hear about it from the Science deniers at the ABC.

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Some reading for a rainy day...Are we really all Charlie? No, no and shamefully no
Andrew Bolt Herald-Sun They lie. The Islamist terrorists are winning, and the coordinated attacks on the Charlie Hebdo magazine and kosher shop will be just one more success. One more step to our gutless surrender.Al-Qaeda in Yemen didn’t attack Charlie Hebdo because we are all Charlie Hebdo.The opposite. It sent in the brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi because Charlie Hebdo was almost alone.Unlike
most politicians, journalists, lawyers and other members of our ruling
classes, this fearless magazine dared to mock Islam in the way the Left
routinely mocks Christianity. Unlike much of our ruling class, it
refused to sell out our freedom to speak.Its greatest sin — to the Islamists — was to republish the infamous cartoons of Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten which mocked Mohammed, and then to publish even more of its own, including one showing the Muslim prophet naked.Are we really all Charlie? No, no and shamefully no.

#enoughwiththispandering
Geoffrey Luck - QuadrantThe chatterers at the ABC can quote the like-minded all they like about
the understandable alienation Islamist butchers must feel, but events
are outstripping their ability to bury the grim reality of near-daily
outrages beneath feel-good pap. In Europe, while their leaders waffle,
average citizens have had enough

GL in comments at Quadrant...The assiduous avoidance, by two (ABC) reporters in Paris and the studio
presenter, of any reference to Islam, Islamic terrorists, jihad or the
role of religion or ideology indicates strongly an editorial direction
and policy. It is to be hoped that this will provoke energetic protests
to the ABC.

Saturday, January 10, 2015

Gerard Henderson in today's Australian comments on ABC's coverage of the Islamic terrorist attacks in Paris.ABC must confront the inconvenient truth about Islamic terrorism SO Paris is the most recent city to
experience a dose of what Monash University academic and former ABC
Radio National presenter Waleed Aly has termed a ­“perpetual irritant”.
However, to everyday Parisians, the murder of Charlie Hebdo staff and two ­policemen was by no means an ­“irritant”.
The latest attack by an Islamist group on a democratic society
again pointed out the difference in approach to such events taken by
most members of the general public and some members of the
intelligentsia. To the former, jihadist inspired murder is just jihadist
inspired murder. To some commentators, on the other hand, murderers
have complicated ­intentions along with motives that appear other than
what they are. Still others decline to call a jihadist a jihadist.On
early Thursday morning news broke in Australia on the latest terrorist
attack in France. In Sydney, ABC Radio 702 issued the following tweet:
“Waking up and learning of the overnight violence in Paris? Here’s some
of the history of Charlie Hebdo.” To which one tweeter responded: “Overnight violence? How about calling it an ‘Islamist terrorist attack’? That’s what it is.”

Follow the link to read the rest.

Also in the Oz today a great piece by Brendon O'Neill:Western freedom of speech was under attack long before the Paris killings THE global cry of “Je suis Charlie”
in response to the bloody massacre of satirists and cartoonists in Paris
has been heartening.
From Paris’s Place de la Republique to London’s Trafalgar Square to
the streets of San Francisco, thousands of people have gathered in
silence, holding up pens, in memory of the 12 people killed in the
brutal assault on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.The
pens symbolise the freedom to write, to draw, to express in print what
lurks in one’s mind. An attendee at the gathering in London spoke for
many when he stated simply: “I’m here to support freedom of speech.”Yet while these quietly angry gatherings have spoken to a deep well of human solidarity, they also feel a little too late.For
the ideal of freedom of speech has been under assault for years in the
West, battered by law and by mobs and by super-sensitive cliques of
offence-takers, everywhere from France to Britain, Scandinavia, the US
and Australia.And it has been in part this ­silent war on free speech, and
particularly the institutionalisation of the crazy idea that it is bad
to offend people’s sensibilities, that has encouraged Islamists to think
they have the right to stamp out Mohammed-reviling material.

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